I'm playing several politicians and business sims, and even some of the freelance sims with a rented office somewhere ought to wear a typical office outfit. This game has tons of excentric pack theme based outfits, being cultural City Living or recycled ECO. EA often do variety, but they end up doing it too bold. Like some of the casual outfits with Cats&Dogs would look good if it was not for all the cat ad dogs patterns.In TS3 I had quite a few very nice looking suit jackets with a tie. Some were very formal, while others were more casual, the typical office where yu don't need to impress neither your boss or the customers.In TS4 I have very few jackets with a tie. I do realize that tie might be less common in year 2020, but still, it's a way to diverse our sims. Also a suit jacket with subtle fabric structure would be nice, without getting way too whimsy. As far as I can tell, we got only one suit jacket with tie with the Get to Work pack. Most jackets with shirt are non-tie and an open shirt suggesting a younger sim going on a date, not a modest office man...Anyone else missing more neutral outfits? Any good CC out there? I grabbed a few full suites previously, but hardly used them as they were not Maxis match.

As someone who has to wear a suit and tie to work every day in real life, the variety in the game really irks me. I couldn’t agree more.

I like crazy colors in my game, but I have noticed the lack of ties in the game as well.

So be that EA is aiming for younger gamers, but even younger gamers need to play some boring grown ups from time to time ;) I really miss more average "modestly boring" office attire alternatives. I used to work in a bank - employees never wore a floral patterned suit or open shirt...

fullbody outfits have it somewhat better but couldn't agree more about the tops and bottomsi feel like i keep giving dudes fullbody outfits because of thissome of the tops with tie are also weirdly shaped for dude bodies and idk whats with that

It doesn’t bother me too much. I can work with what’s there. Finding a good pair of dress pants is more troublesome, in fact there is only one that looks just about ok on my sims, which I believe was shipped with base game or GTW.I’m not a fan of ties in RL and rarely wear one, although in my line of work it would be very common for a male to wear a suit, shirt and tie or a dickie-bow.

Why so few male suits/jackets with tie?

23 Replies

bsozz
5 years ago
As someone who has to wear a suit and tie to work every day in real life, the variety in the game really irks me. I couldn’t agree more.
RouenSims
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I like crazy colors in my game, but I have noticed the lack of ties in the game as well.
Simmerville
Legend
5 years ago
So be that EA is aiming for younger gamers, but even younger gamers need to play some boring grown ups from time to time ;) I really miss more average "modestly boring" office attire alternatives. I used to work in a bank - employees never wore a floral patterned suit or open shirt...
Simmingal
Hero
5 years ago
fullbody outfits have it somewhat better but couldn't agree more about the tops and bottoms

i feel like i keep giving dudes fullbody outfits because of this

some of the tops with tie are also weirdly shaped for dude bodies and idk whats with that
CAPTAIN_NXR7
Legend
5 years ago
It doesn’t bother me too much. I can work with what’s there. Finding a good pair of dress pants is more troublesome, in fact there is only one that looks just about ok on my sims, which I believe was shipped with base game or GTW.

I’m not a fan of ties in RL and rarely wear one, although in my line of work it would be very common for a male to wear a suit, shirt and tie or a dickie-bow.
FarleyGranger
5 years ago
"Simmerville;c-17739435" wrote:
EA is aiming for younger gamers

I think this is it. EA is appealing to younger, everyday street fashion conscious players. I just checked my game and found 10 male tops with a necktie or bow tie. I also found 10 male tops with SCARVES around the neck. I have only know one guy who regularly wore a scarf, a fashion model who was starting to "age out" of the business at 27. He didn't have a lot of clothes, but they were all very, very nice. Scarves.

Anyway. There aren't a lot ties or matched suits in the game. They could have made interchangeable ties like the necklaces, but it's too late for that. Even the women's clothes don't have a lot of workplace appropriate clothing (although there are 100 times more than the male choices).
GalacticGal
Legend
5 years ago
"Simmerville;d-984452" wrote:
I'm playing several politicians and business sims, and even some of the freelance sims with a rented office somewhere ought to wear a typical office outfit. This game has tons of excentric pack theme based outfits, being cultural City Living or recycled ECO. EA often do variety, but they end up doing it too bold. Like some of the casual outfits with Cats&Dogs would look good if it was not for all the cat ad dogs patterns.

In TS3 I had quite a few very nice looking suit jackets with a tie. Some were very formal, while others were more casual, the typical office where yu don't need to impress neither your boss or the customers.

In TS4 I have very few jackets with a tie. I do realize that tie might be less common in year 2020, but still, it's a way to diverse our sims. Also a suit jacket with subtle fabric structure would be nice, without getting way too whimsy. As far as I can tell, we got only one suit jacket with tie with the Get to Work pack. Most jackets with shirt are non-tie and an open shirt suggesting a younger sim going on a date, not a modest office man...

Anyone else missing more neutral outfits? Any good CC out there? I grabbed a few full suites previously, but hardly used them as they were not Maxis match.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could sometime in the future, be able to select individual pieces of clothing for our Sims. Tie, shirt, jacket, outerwear over it. So far we can select their shoes and their hats, but I get bored with the coat/jacket selections under full body outfits. For once, it would be nice to have our Sims be able to arrive at their destination and remove that outerwear to show off whatever they are wearing underneath, no?
Simmerville
Legend
5 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-17739761" wrote:
"Simmerville;d-984452" wrote:
I'm playing several politicians and business sims, and even some of the freelance sims with a rented office somewhere ought to wear a typical office outfit. This game has tons of excentric pack theme based outfits, being cultural City Living or recycled ECO. EA often do variety, but they end up doing it too bold. Like some of the casual outfits with Cats&Dogs would look good if it was not for all the cat ad dogs patterns.

In TS3 I had quite a few very nice looking suit jackets with a tie. Some were very formal, while others were more casual, the typical office where yu don't need to impress neither your boss or the customers.

In TS4 I have very few jackets with a tie. I do realize that tie might be less common in year 2020, but still, it's a way to diverse our sims. Also a suit jacket with subtle fabric structure would be nice, without getting way too whimsy. As far as I can tell, we got only one suit jacket with tie with the Get to Work pack. Most jackets with shirt are non-tie and an open shirt suggesting a younger sim going on a date, not a modest office man...

Anyone else missing more neutral outfits? Any good CC out there? I grabbed a few full suites previously, but hardly used them as they were not Maxis match.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could sometime in the future, be able to select individual pieces of clothing for our Sims. Tie, shirt, jacket, outerwear over it. So far we can select their shoes and their hats, but I get bored with the coat/jacket selections under full body outfits. For once, it would be nice to have our Sims be able to arrive at their destination and remove that outerwear to show off whatever they are wearing underneath, no?

I'd love that! And it's not too late re TS4, because they could always add new categories and split up a few selected EA outfit, allowing for CC and more to still work. Would make making videos ad stories much easier, too, in the costume division. I'd love to see individual wardrobes, too - not necessarily needing to send each sim to a clothing store, but at least to be able to tag on swatch level what sim owns the swatch version. I like the idea of only one sim having a certain necklace, for instance, and NPCs should naturally never use any item (swatch) that was already tagged. :) But - guess this is all not gonna happen...
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I agree with "male suits" in the game are not bad, but lacking more customization. And for whatever, female sims can wear the classic suits too and look good in it. ;)

I was trying to look for a certain mix of suits and ties, and bow-ties even, just the other day. lol!
justdancerebecc
5 years ago
I totally agree! It drives me nuts when I try to dress a male sim for a wedding or date and can't seem to find the proper outfit, there's only like 1 or 2 shirts with ties (which tends to look more casual to begin with), and the few outfit suits aren't any better